Ridgeview Deluxe Climbing Frame

Thank you so much!!! We are so pleased with our playground and what it means to our children. Many hours of fun an memories to be made..The whole process was so easy. The layby option is fantastic meant we could get a bigger one. Was easy to collect from pick up point.Putting it together was relatively easy the instructions were very easy to read and follow making it straight forward process. We made a few additions like chalk board, handles and a few extra but the playground itself is unbelievable sturdy and the end result is beyond words..
Thank you very happy customer!!!!

We highly recommend climbingframes.com.au to anyone wanting to buy a cubby without the stress of leaving their house to do so! With the enormous range of high quality products you're bound to find something to suit your needs. Every staff member I've had the pleasure of dealing with has been more than helpful, and bent over backwards to meet our needs.

Thank you to the wonderful team at climbingframes.com.au for making our kids Christmas this year most likely the best one yet!

One of the best flat packs I have ever seen!! So well put together.
Removed everything from it's boxes and double checked everything was there, sweet. One of the best things was the fact that there were extra bolts and screws etc in case you needed more or lost some. Why don't more do that?
Took a couple of hours on a Saturday, most of Sunday and a an hour on Monday to get it all together. Pretty easy construction with a few minor confusing parts.
All in all, a great product that the kids will love for years to come.

Firstly I will like to say the Ridgeview Deluxe climbing frame is a fantastic playset and my 3 and 7 year old daughters love every bit of it.

ClimbingFrames also has a wonderful customer service. I accidentally cracked one of the pieces while assembling and they replaced it for free after I emailed them. They even paid for the express postage and I was very impressed by that.

I personally am not a very handy person with my experience limited to assembling IKEA furniture. Overall I spent about 38 hours putting together the playset mostly by myself when the instructions state it is a 10-14 hour for two person assembly.

Even though they said the holes are "predrilled" but in reality it is only half of them. For instance, in the rock wall assembly, there are pre-drilled holes on the rock board but there are no holes on the long side rail. Ultimately it is up to you to make sure that things line up and the frame is straight and square. If you are not used to wood work or are paranoid about things not being straight, be prepared to spend a bit more time. It will be nice if all the holes are pre-drilled like IKEA products.
This is generally not an issue but this is made worse when the QC of certain parts is less than ideal.

For example for the roofing, the roof pieces are of varying length. The roof support is quite mobile when you put it together and if the first few pieces you screwed on to secure the support are slightly shorter, then the last few pieces may not fit. I found out the hard way and ended up have to take the roof apart a few times.

The same goes with the wall siding. I had followed the instructions and made sure the pieces are flush with each other but I ended up with a small but unsightly gap at the end with the last piece screwed on.

Another example is with the roof frame assembly. As you can you from the imaged I attached, there is a defect/hole in the wood where the screw is supposed to go in. I simply drilled another hole for the screw but it is a QC issue nonetheless.

One last example is the floor joist for the for frame. The instructions state you need to make sure the frame is square and flat. Yet the predrilled holes to attach the floor joist are not even straight.

Maybe I am over-reacting with the QC. Some may say it does not matter at the end of the day and the fort or the roof is not going to collapse when things are not perfectly straight or square but personally I find it irritating and annoying to say the least.

Lastly if the timber ground stake can be replaced with metal ones, that will make life a lot easier.

But despite all the issues during assembly, my two daughters absolutely love the play and have spent many after school and after dinner hours on the playset.

My 3 year old daughter has had great fun playing on this. We had a concrete slab in a corner of the garden that we wanted to make use of. This site was great for checking the exact measurements so we were sure to get something that fit the space we had. It is tricky to put together, think flat pack difficulty x 10. All the pieces are clearly marked but they are pieces, unlike some other playgrounds there are no pre assembled panels. This has been in our garden for 6 months now & my daughter hasn’t lost interest. It has weathered well so far, just a couple of discoloured boards & a couple of warping feather boards (easily fixed with a couple of extra screws). I’m confident this will last several years.

Detailed instructions which are relatively easy to follow. There's a couple of flaws in the design; the "chalkboard" is really flimsy, and there's nothing at its back to give a nice finish to the frame. I rectified this by buying a proper chalkboard and getting extra cladding to finish the frame properly - as the photos show. I bought the "baby swing seat" to make the frame more suitable for my little one. The frame looks great, sits nicely in the garden, and my little one loves playing in it - on the swing, up the rock ladder and down the slide, or in the ground floor area and seats outside. This is a great purchase, and I'm sure the other frames are too.

Couldn't be happier with this product, I was a little sceptical with the build time stated when I opened the boxes but we managed to get it done with 2 people in the time advised.

I did the inventory one evening and spent time putting all the timber and nuts and bolts for each step into little piles. This took 2 hours BUT it made the build so simple, it was also cool seeing our progress. Slowly but surely our piles started to disappear!

The instructions were very clear and miraculously our fort was put together without a fight (wars have nearly occurred in our house over flat packs)

All in all, since putting it up this cubby has bought nothing but joy to our little ones life. Very happy with the investment.

The Ridgeview Deluxe Climbing Frame is amazing value for money. It was easy to assemble and the instructions are very straightforward and easy to follow. I completely assembled the climbing frame myself (over 50 female) except used the help of a neighbour to help lift the roof on. The great neices love it and are busy growing plants in the planter box and the hanging basket they have hanging from the shop canopy. It has been a very worthwhile investment and looks attractive in the yard. The only downside is that the slide gets very hot in the sun but we overcome that by sliding down on a towel in the hot weather which is definitely a plus because it adds speed to the fun!!!

Unpacking this product was a bit daunting given how many pieces were there - I read the instructions through once (recommend that one!) and away I went. Took two days to build, the instructions made it so simple and were very easy to follow and so on that score this product gets a big thumbs up! I concreted the supports in as we get big wind storms, and the structure has taken a real pounding with no damage whatsoever, so I'm happy with the quality of the components. The kids just love it and it is a real bonus for us to be able to let them play at home so we don't have to make the big effort of packing up the car and going to the park. Considering what we pay for cell phones and TV's these days this is a really worthy investment in my children's happiness!